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Glimpses are all the tourist is allowed, and the intriguing hints are brief and inarticulate. But they are lasting. My thoughts have played with the natives' idiosyncrasies since my return. It is evident that they know each other so well that the simplest rituals of daily routine take on the meanings of generations of common experience...
Concentrations, instead of serving as tools to focus a student are treated as binding molds that a student must fit in growing. In this case the simplest reform is best. Just leave more loopholes in the requirements for concentration. The new independent studies program, although it asks the right questions, is too complicated and asks them at the wrong time...
...nearly fell on her face. Hardly anybody minded. For by that time, Natalia Makarova had demonstrated that she has that heart-stopping quality of a great dancer. As the doomed girl in Giselle, she had just executed a series of dazzling turns and was subsiding into a curtsy-the simplest of maneuvers. It was like a man who had scaled Mount Everest slipping in his shower...
...mothers and children have their choice of lining up for eight white Santas or two black Santas. But 75% of the blacks have chosen the white Santas. It is perhaps sad to impose racial politics upon the mythologies of children, but the reasons for the choices are intriguing. The simplest explanation may be that children have almost always seen only white Santas, thus the black man looks odd in the role. But maybe some of the black mothers are making a deliberate choice. Department store Santas can't deliver the goods, of course, only promises, promises...
This sense of revelation, bursting through the simplest acts and objects, was central to Zen art. A night heron, painted in the early 16th century...